Frankenstein in All Challenges All The Time

Oct 17, 2017 Katherine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

”Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the souls of both hope and fear. ”

Synopsis: ’Write the scariest story possible,’ they said. ‘I triple dog dare you.’

‘Oh, I’ll do more than that,’ Mary Shelley said. ‘I’ll create an entire fucking new genre instead.’ SMASH THAT PATRIARCHY.

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The Writing- The writing is what totally made this book ...more

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Nov 23, 2011 Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!} rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical, classics, buddy-reads-r-social-life, fiction, dark, palate-cleanser, four-stars, books-i-read-with-hot-tea, old-school-gothic, ebook-free

This was beautiful. I loved her style.

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Nov 04, 2021 Elle rated it it was ok

Shelves: classic

2.5 stars.

Ugh. Classics are always hit or miss for me and this one was a hard miss. Sure, it's creative in terms of the monster creation, but the execution bored me to tears. Usually I enjoy an epistolary style novel, but not this one. The pacing was incredibly slow and the narration just did not do it for me. I could care less about the characters. I honestly would have DNF'd if this book was not a classic and even now I'm kind of kicking myself that I slogged through it. Life is too short. ...more

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Jun 14, 2012 Diane rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, classic

Great book- In addition to the legend/horror, this book has many themes that are thought provoking. I really enjoyed its explorations into nature vs nuture, inherent traits vs. acquired characteristics, tabula rasa, and the roots of evil.

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Nov 07, 2011 Zhana rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-bulgarian, classics, library

First of all I just want to say that the writing style of the author is amazing...but for me this was not a horror novel. The story - very original and amazingly thought provoking, was portrayed in a very captivating way. The characters, although very well built, were not very likeable. I hated the protagonist of the story until the very end. I was just so pissed off by his stupidity (I mean...how can you create something...a living thing...and then just leave it like that...really, how stupid c ...more

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